Thank you Conrad, Daniel, and Blues. The simple Add/Remove gui does not show either mc or automake, BUT synaptic does. All is well in the world - for at least another day.
Cheers! Mark (Spokeman) On Jul 26, 4:51 pm, BluesRenegade <[email protected]> wrote: > 1. Open the System menu, Administration, Software Sources window > 2. On the Ubuntu Software tab, click on Community-Maintained Open > Source software (universe) so that it's checked. > 3. Close the Software Sources window. > 4. Open the System menu, Administration, Synaptic Package Manager > 5. In the Search box enter: mc > > VOILA!! You're on your way to having mc installed......... > > John > > On Jul 24, 1:07 pm, spokeman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I've installed Ubuntu 9.04 on my machine. MC (Midnight Commander) is > > not available in any of the repositories, but I can get a source > > tar.gz from their home site. I tried to install following their > > install recommendations, but it ain't working. The MC install > > instructions say to run configure first. > > > $ ./configure > > > but that gets me this error, and I'm stuck. > > > configure: error: cannot find install-sh or install.sh in > > config "."/config > > > There is an install.sh in /config, but it's a zero-byter. > > > Ideas? Help? > > > Thx; > > Mark > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
